In his speech, he claimed that a “new McCarthyism” was persecuting anyone who wants to “preserve marriage”.

He said: This McCarthyism would force every corporate leader, university official, public contractor, or media figure to answer a question: Are you now or have you ever been involved in an effort to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman?” No, I’ll go further than that: this New McCarthyism demands, ‘Do you now think or have you ever thought that marriage should remain the union of a man and a woman?’

“Answer incorrectly, and watch your career be taken from you and your reputation smeared on
a thousand web sites.”

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